Program Requirements
Required Courses
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| LPH LPHS 1000 | Foundations in Public Health | 3 |
| LPH LPHS 2000 | Introduction to Public and Global Health | 3 |
| LPH LPHS 3000 | Public Health Theories, Models, and Frameworks | 3 |
| Total Units | 9 |
Elective Courses
Students select 9 credits of elective courses from any one of the five different elective categories listed below. At least one course must be from the "Social, Cultural, and Historical Analysis of Health, Illness, and Wellness" category.
Social, Cultural, and Historical Analysis of Health, Illness, and Wellness (SCH) Electives
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| AFAS 3672 | Medicine, Healing and Experimentation in the Contours of Black History | 3 |
| AMCS 3755 | Disability, Quality of Life & Community Responsibility | 3 |
| Anthro 3090 | Cultures of Health in Latin America | 3 |
| Anthro 3151 | Evolution of the Human Diet | 3 |
| Anthro 3201 | Gender, Culture, and Madness | 3 |
| Anthro 3280 | Anthropology of Infectious Diseases | 3 |
| Anthro 3310 | Health, Healing and Ethics: Introduction to Medical Anthropology | 3 |
| Anthro 3621 | Anthropology of Human Birth | 3 |
| Anthro 3625 | The Female Life-Cycle in Cross-Cultural Perspective | 3 |
| Anthro 3860 | Sports, Health, and Society | 3 |
| Anthro 3875 | Pharmaceutical Personhood | 3 |
| Anthro 3885 | Global Mental Health | 3 |
| Anthro 4003 | Interrogating Health, Race, and Inequalities: Public Health, Medical Anthropology, and History | 3 |
| Anthro 4022 | Transnational Reproductive Health Issues: Meanings, Technologies, Practices | 3 |
| Anthro 4110 | Pushing Daisies: The Anthropology of Death and Dying | 3 |
| Anthro 4134 | The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics | 3 |
| Classics 3801 | Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine | 3 |
| Classics 4700 | Ancient Greek and Roman Gynecology | 3 |
| Econ 352 | Health Economics | 3 |
| E Lit 391W | Literature and Medicine | 3 |
| GeSt 249 | Images of Disability in Film and Literature | 3 |
| GeSt 375 | Disability, Quality of Life & Community Responsibility | 3 |
| GS 3006 | Global Health and Language | 3 |
| History 1640 | Health and Disease in World History | 3 |
| History 3044 | Humors, Pox and Plague: Medieval and Early Modern Medicine | 3 |
| History 3067 | Topics in the History of Medicine: History of Madness | 3 |
| History 3715 | Unruly Populations: Biopolitics in 20th-Century Europe | 3 |
| History 4881 | Advanced Seminar: Mad: Mental Illness, Power and Resistance in Africa and the Caribbean | 3 |
| History 4885 | Advanced Seminar: Medicine, Disease and Empire | 3 |
| Ital 408 | Disease, Madness, and Death Italian Style | 3 |
| MPH 5322 | TPS: Interrogating Health, Race & Inequalities | 3 |
| MPH 5372 | TPS: Gender, Poverty, and Global Health | 3 |
| MedH 307 | Writing and Medicine | 3 |
| MedH 214 | Medical French | 3 |
| MedH 323 | Topics II: In-Perspective: Phobias | 3 |
| MedH 408 | Disease, Madness, and Death Italian Style | 3 |
| Phil 233F | Biomedical Ethics | 3 |
| Phil 3001 | Philosophy of Medicine | 3 |
| SOC 2510 | Sociological Approaches to American Health Care | 3 |
| SOC 2520 | Inequality By Design: Understanding Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities | 3 |
| WGSS 310 | From Hysteria to Hysterectomy: Women's Health Care in America | 3 |
| WGSS 3041 | Making Sex and Gender: Understanding the History of the Body | 3 |
| WGSS 3141 | The Racial and Sexual Politics of Public Health | 3 |
| WGSS 316 | Feminist Health Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 3203 | Bodies Out of Bounds: Feminist and Queer Disability Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 360 | Trans Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 3622 | Women, Health, and Media | 3 |
| WGSS 414 | Gender, Religion, Medicine and Science | 3 |
| Writing 307 | Writing and Medicine | 3 |
Global Health (GH) Electives
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| Anthro 3090 | Cultures of Health in Latin America | 3 |
| Anthro 3201 | Gender, Culture, and Madness | 3 |
| Anthro 3280 | Anthropology of Infectious Diseases | 3 |
| Anthro 3310 | Health, Healing and Ethics: Introduction to Medical Anthropology | 3 |
| Anthro 3612 | Population and Society | 3 |
| Anthro 3621 | Anthropology of Human Birth | 3 |
| Anthro 3625 | The Female Life-Cycle in Cross-Cultural Perspective | 3 |
| Anthro 3860 | Sports, Health, and Society | 3 |
| Anthro 3880 | Multispecies Worlds: Animals, Global Health, and Environment | 3 |
| Anthro 4003 | Interrogating Health, Race, and Inequalities: Public Health, Medical Anthropology, and History | 3 |
| Anthro 4022 | Transnational Reproductive Health Issues: Meanings, Technologies, Practices | 3 |
| Anthro 3885 | Global Mental Health | 3 |
| Anthro 4110 | Pushing Daisies: The Anthropology of Death and Dying | 3 |
| Anthro 4134 | The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics | 3 |
| Anthro 4312 | Environmental Interactions and Human Health | 3 |
| GS 3006 | Global Health and Language | 3 |
| History 3672 | Medicine, Healing and Experimentation in the Contours of Black History | 3 |
| MPH 5001 | Health Behavior and Health Promotion | 3 |
| MPH 5102 | Global Health | 3 |
| MPH 5321 | TPS: Global Nutrition and the Environment: Foods Systems in a Changing World | 3 |
| MPH 5322 | TPS: Interrogating Health, Race & Inequalities | 3 |
| MPH 5323 | TPS: Climate Change and Public Health | 3 |
| MPH 5372 | TPS: Gender, Poverty, and Global Health | 3 |
| MPH 5374 | TPS: Global Reproductive Health | 3 |
| MPH 5383 | TPS: Climate Crisis: Understanding Complexity and Advocacy for Global Health Professionals | 3 |
| SOC 2520 | Inequality By Design: Understanding Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities | 3 |
| WGSS 3141 | The Racial and Sexual Politics of Public Health | 3 |
| WGSS 316 | Feminist Health Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 360 | Trans Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 414 | Gender, Religion, Medicine and Science | 3 |
Biological Approaches to Health and Physiology (BAP) Electives
Environmental Health and Environmental Issues (EH/EI) Electives
Health Research Methods (HRM) Electives
Additional Information
- All courses must be letter-graded and completed with a grade of C or better.
- At least 9 credits must be at the 3000 level or above.
- Only one course (3 credits) may be completed through an approved study abroad program.